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Good. I hope we have a 3rd party option next election.
1. You'll never see a third party option with a hope to win. The best a third party can do is help someone else lose.
2. The Republican party will not split. Either of the two major parties can have crappy election cycles, but neither one is going to commit suicide.
3. Palin will never successfully run for a national office. Her views are too extreme to succeed. The best she could hope for politically is Alaska Senator. If I was her I'd jump ship to Fox News and pick up $15-20 million/year making snarky remarks for the next 10-20 years.
Who do you guys think typifies the "core Republican" these days? Reaganite? Look where that approach has brought us in 20 years (huge deficit, foreign military adventurism, financial markets run amok, steady exporting of US jobs, decreasing domestic investment of industrial capital). The small government crowd doesn't look too healthy these days. Bush has smashed all those ideas to pieces with his benign neglect. The nightmare flipside of every Reaganite plank has been laid bare. Where is the constituency for those ideas today?
Who do you guys think typifies the "core Republican" these days? Reaganite? Look where that approach has brought us in 20 years (huge deficit, foreign military adventurism, financial markets run amok). The small government crowd doesn't look too healthy these days. Bush has smashed all those ideas to pieces with his benign neglect.
anti-abortion. anti-gay. Belief that they're being told the truth and whatever the government needs to do to protect us is fine with them as long as the Democrats aren't in power. That's the base.
So the future GOP base is defined in terms of their moral anxiety? What about small government? What about military hegemony? What about globalization and "free trade"? What about making the world safe for Exxon and Proctor & Gamble?
anti-abortion. anti-gay. Belief that they're being told the truth and whatever the government needs to do to protect us is fine with them as long as the Democrats aren't in power. That's the base.
That's just how the Republican party is like in the conservative states, like Oklahoma and Alabama.
anti-abortion. anti-gay. Belief that they're being told the truth and whatever the government needs to do to protect us is fine with them as long as the Democrats aren't in power. That's the base.
the base thats a little afraid of someone that doesn't look and act like them? with a funny name born from a foreign, non-christian father?
the base thats a little afraid of someone that doesn't look and act like them? with a funny name born from a foreign, non-christian father?
boil it down even further. Democrats. or LIEHBRUGHLS! if you want to expand their worries.
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